Catalytic Enantioselective Transfer Hydrogenation-Carboxylative Cyclization to 4-Fluoroalkyl 2-Oxazolidinone with CO2 as the C1 Synthon

Org Lett. 2021 Apr 2;23(7):2726-2730. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c00632. Epub 2021 Mar 24.

Abstract

We report a sequential catalytic asymmetric transfer hydrogenation-carboxylative cyclization for the facile construction of chiral 4-fluoroalkyl 2-oxazolidinones with high enantioselectivity. The resulting 2-oxazolidinones can be easily elaborated to synthetic useful chiral β-fluoroalkyl β-amino alcohols. This research also represents a rare example of catalytic asymmetric sequential reactions using CO2 as a C1 synthon as well as carboxylative cyclization of α-fluoroalkyl propargylamines.

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  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't